"Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions."

please don't turn this into livejournal. if i understand the purpose of the game correctly, it's to be able to say something when you have nothing to say. which is why you get all sorts of quizzes and random tasks like seeing what chain-restaurant appetizer you are on places like livejournal: many people there (and who use weblogs in general) don't have anything interesting to say.

i/we probably aren't so much above that level, but we can pretend.

at least make it an interesting or at the very least creative task or challenge, like perl golf, or using gimp to manipulate some piece of fine or pop-art into social satire.